Communications of the ACM - Self managed systems
Storytelling alice motivates middle school girls to learn computer programming
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Learning To Program with Alice
Learning To Program with Alice
Gr8 designs for Gr8 girls: a middle-school program and its evaluation
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
CSbots: design and deployment of a robot designed for the CS1 classroom
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Do LEGO® Mindstorms® motivate students in CS1?
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
INSPIRED computing academies for middle school students: lessons learned
The Fifth Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference: Intellect, Initiatives, Insight, and Innovations
Alice and robotics in introductory CS courses
The Fifth Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference: Intellect, Initiatives, Insight, and Innovations
PREOP as a tool to increase student retention in CS
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Providing robotic experiences through object-based programming (PREOP)
Proceedings of the 2009 Alice Symposium
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This paper describes DOROTHY, a novel educational tool that enhances the Alice 3D programming environment to enable bidirectional communication of sensor data and commands with robots capable of autonomous operation. Users without any programming experience can quickly create graphical routines consisting of one or more simulated robots in virtual worlds. Command dictionaries and socket streams enable real-time translation of these routines to software for synchronous or asynchronous control of sensing and actuation on one or more mobile robots with on-board sensing, resulting in adaptive behavior in the real-world. Multiple execution scenarios are described to illustrate the capabilities of the educational tool. Furthermore, the paper outlines a curriculum that can be used with the tool to teach core concepts of computing, concurrent execution and real-world sensing to middle school and high school students, thus stimulating interest in computing.